If you’re a Bitbucket Data Center app developer, use this page to keep track of upcoming changes, deprecation notices, new features, and feature updates.
In Bitbucket Data Center, we have moved the communication about releases and updates from the Atlassian Developer Community here. With this transition, we aim to provide partners and developers with a single, customizable feed of improvements and changes to our products.
We hope you will continue using the Atlassian Developer Community for discussion and support.
To continue getting updates about new Bitbucket Data Center releases, check out Bitbucket release notes.
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Bitbucket Data Center 8.19.2 and Bitbucket Data Center and Server 8.9.13 bug fix releases are available now!
To see the issues resolved in these bug fix releases, go to:
As part of our ongoing commitment to security, we’ll cease publishing development releases of Data Center product artifacts to the Atlassian Maven repository. Moving forward, only artifacts used in the Early Access Program (EAP) and final product releases will be available to maintain the highest level of security for our customers.
Bitbucket Data Center 8.19.1 and Bitbucket Data Center and Server 8.9.12 bug fix releases are available now!
To see the issues resolved in these bug fix releases, go to:
Bitbucket Data Center 8.19 includes all of the brand-new features, user experience enhancements, and security updates that we’ve released since the last Long Term Support release, Bitbucket 8.9.
Set up dark theme in your profile, create your first draft pull request, configure a code owners file, and get the most of dozens of other improvements.
Check out the whole bucket of new features in the release notes
Bitbucket Data Center 7.21.23, 8.14.6, 8.15.5, 8.16.4, 8.17.2, and 8.18.1 bug fix releases are available now!
To see the issues resolved in these bug fix releases, go to:
We are updating the Atlassian Security Bug Fix Policy. Changes will take effect across all Data Center products on March 15, 2024.
Previously, we delivered bug fix releases for any supported Long Term Support release in accordance with the Atlassian Support End-of-Life Policy, and for all product versions that are no older than 6 months.
With our new policy, we will continue to deliver a bug fix release for any supported Long Term Support release in accordance with the Atlassian Support End-of-Life Policy, but we are updating our policy to only support the most recently shipped feature release.
In the event of a critical vulnerability, we will take all of the following steps:
Ship a bug fix for the latest feature release of the product affected by the vulnerability.
Ship a new feature release for the affected product according to the release schedule.
Ship a bug fix release for all supported Long Term Support releases of the affected product, adhering to the Atlassian Support End of Life Policy.
We aim to develop the most effective methods for enhancing the security of our software and delivering updates faster and more frequently. When considering an upgrade, you can be sure that the latest feature release is the most secure and stable product version as it contains the most up-to-date security fixes and feature enhancements.
If you have any concerns or if you require clarification on any aspect of the updated bug fix policy, please do not hesitate to reach out to our support team.
Find more details of the new process at Announcement: Planned changes to the Security Bug Fix Policy.
Bitbucket Data Center 8.18 is available for upgrade! This release enhances the application’s security and optimizes collaboration on code with draft pull requests and quick adds for suggested reviewers.
We’re working on migrating Bitbucket Data Center to Atlassian REST v2. Following industry standards, Atlassian REST v2 now uses the libraries Jersey 2.x and Jackson 2.x to eliminate security risks and reduce maintenance costs, while the user experience remains the same.
In preparation for moving to a more secure version of REST API, all classes in bitbucket-rest-api and bitbucket-rest-model have been deprecated. We also plan on exporting only necessary packages to external plugins and changing namespace prefixes. So when you migrate to REST v2, you’ll need to re-import product packages and refactor your code.
We’ll provide more guidelines for replacement classes and the migration path in the following months, giving you enough time to make all the necessary preparations on your side. Stay tuned!
Bitbucket Data Center 8.17 is available for upgrade! The new release provides auto-signature for system commits, Hazelcast updates, and a few experience-enhancing improvements like the ability to download patch and diff files from pull requests and to copy code blocks with only one click.
Bitbucket Data Center 8.16 is available for upgrade! In this release, dark theme has finally landed in the profile settings of all users. We’ve also added support for HashiCorp Vault and introduced a few security improvements on the back-end.
Bitbucket Data Center 8.16 is introducing dark theme! Every user can set it up in their profile and enjoy the new experience with visual consistency across their work environments, reduced eye strain and distractions, as well as the power-saving choice of personal settings. Learn more about dark theme
Would you like to take a look at dark theme before you set it up? Here’s how your code diff will look:
As security is becoming increasingly important across the industry, so does code signing. Many enterprise customers are starting to enforce code signing internally. Recently, Git introduced support of SSH keys as yet another option for signing commits and tags. SSH is used ubiquitously for secure access, unlike GPG keys, SSH keys are quite well understood by developers.
Starting from Bitbucket Data Center 8.15, you can use personal SSH keys not only to access a Bitbucket instance but also to sign your commits and tags. To get started, check SSH user keys for personal use.
Bitbucket Data Center 8.15 is available for upgrade! This is the first Data Center-only release without support for Server licenses. If you have a Server license, check your options for upgrade or visit the Bitbucket downgrade guide.
In Bitbucket Data Center, we have moved the communication about releases and updates from the Atlassian Developer Community to the Atlassian developer changelog. With this transition, we strive to provide partners and developers with a single feed customized to your specific interests in improvements and important changes in our product.
We hope you will continue using the Atlassian Developer Community for discussion and support. Stay tuned!
Bitbucket Data Center 8.15 also introduces new features for optimizing and securing your work on code. Try out auto-merge for pull requests, the ability to sign commits with SSH keys and X.509 certificates, and other improvements. Learn more about the new features in the release notes
To update your Bitbucket license:
Go to Administration > Licensing.
Select Edit license and enter your Data Center license key.
Select Save.
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